ATA’s Addington To Become Cheney Counsel
David S. Addington, senior vice president and general counsel of American Trucking Associations, is leaving the trucking federation for a job in the new Bush administration.
He has been appointed counsel to Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney.
He is “regarded as a longtime friend and aide to Cheney, and has held a number of sensitive posts for his former boss, including serving as Cheney’s ‘gatekeeper’ during his tenure at the Pentagon,” said Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
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More than a new job, it is also a return to the Republican governing fold for the 43-year-old lawyer. Addington has worked before for Cheney. The Duke University Law School graduate was general counsel of the Department of Defense in 1992 when Cheney was secretary of defense.
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